49 min
Episode 1: racism & COVID-19 NETRAG+
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- Medicine
Both the COVID-19 pandemic & the treatment of humans like George Floyd have very publicly exposed the inequalities which lie at the heart of our societies and political structures the world over.
But what does that have to do with treating patients & working as an emergency physician, you might ask?
The answer: an awful lot - and much more than I've ever understood in the past.
Back in March, the guests for our very first NETRAG+ podcast, academic Darren Chetty & clinician Rageshri Dhairyawan (though they both have several other roles & hats) wrote a Discover Society article analysing these very issues: would the anticipated overwhelming of NHS resources by patients critically unwell with COVID-19 expose already deeply unequal outcomes between ethnic groups? And how do these relate to structural racism?
This challenging read linked well to a training day we were due to hold for our trainees around education & public health (you'll hear more content from this soon) and I was delighted when they agreed to a virtual chat around their motivations for writing the article.
We touch on many things: unconscious bias, The Marmot Review Ten Years On, the preoccupation with the biological over social explanations for health disparities, shameful racism & unethical research in the history of medicine, problems with physicians' interpretation of pain in females & BAME groups, and so much more.
Visit the Wordpress blogpost for recommended reading (both Rageshri & Darren wear several other hats!) Listen, share and comment below to let us know what you think!
Chris
NETRAG+
Both the COVID-19 pandemic & the treatment of humans like George Floyd have very publicly exposed the inequalities which lie at the heart of our societies and political structures the world over.
But what does that have to do with treating patients & working as an emergency physician, you might ask?
The answer: an awful lot - and much more than I've ever understood in the past.
Back in March, the guests for our very first NETRAG+ podcast, academic Darren Chetty & clinician Rageshri Dhairyawan (though they both have several other roles & hats) wrote a Discover Society article analysing these very issues: would the anticipated overwhelming of NHS resources by patients critically unwell with COVID-19 expose already deeply unequal outcomes between ethnic groups? And how do these relate to structural racism?
This challenging read linked well to a training day we were due to hold for our trainees around education & public health (you'll hear more content from this soon) and I was delighted when they agreed to a virtual chat around their motivations for writing the article.
We touch on many things: unconscious bias, The Marmot Review Ten Years On, the preoccupation with the biological over social explanations for health disparities, shameful racism & unethical research in the history of medicine, problems with physicians' interpretation of pain in females & BAME groups, and so much more.
Visit the Wordpress blogpost for recommended reading (both Rageshri & Darren wear several other hats!) Listen, share and comment below to let us know what you think!
Chris
NETRAG+
49 min